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Alone in his hotel room after the field day, Rhys drifts into a dream where Maddox appears fully realized—naked, present, and wanting. The dream is explicit and immersive, collapsing twenty years of restraint into sensation. In this space, there are no interruptions, no social rules, no consequences—only the version of Maddox Rhys has carried in his body for decades.
The encounter unfolds with an intensity that feels inevitable, as if the dream itself is built from everything that was denied in waking life. Time bends. Boundaries dissolve. Desire is allowed to complete its arc.
But the chapter does not end in fantasy. Rhys wakes alone, the physical ache of the dream still lingering, and is forced to confront what the dream reveals rather than what it provides. The line between imagination and reality has thinned—and the cost of crossing it is no longer abstract.
Dreams Made Flesh is not fulfillment. It is exposure. A reminder that what the mind has been rehearsing for years can no longer stay contained.
🎧 Content note: Explicit sexual content; mature themes.
